American Go E-Journal

In a final showdown Friday afternoon, the Pair Go team of April Ye 1D and Daniel Ko 7D defeated Wan Chen 4D and Jie Liang 7D for the title of 2014 US Pair Go Champions. Eight pairs competed at two top tables at Thursday night’s Pair Go tournament to produce Friday afternoon’s finalists. As first place winners and this year’s US Pair Go Champions, Ye and Ko will represent the US at the International Pair Go Championship in Tokyo the last weekend of October. Wan Chen and Jie Liang took second place, Gabriella Su and Justin Ching were third and Amy Su and Forest Song placed fourth. After two rounds of competition Thursday night, the rest of the tournament produced 13 other table winners: Dahye Lee/Ben Lockhart, Xinying Jiang/Michael Chen, Zhiwei Gao/Chun Sun, Yingzhi Qian/Will Lockhart, Sophia Wang/Lionel Zang, Kaoru Hidaka/Shigeo Hidaka, Samantha Fede/Andrew Jackson, Miyoko Miyama/Yoshitomo Nakata, Melissa Cao/Raymond Feng, Alexandra Patz/Marc Palmer, Yoko Ohashi/Mark Fraser, Jesy Feliccia/Samuel Suastegui, Elan Ma/Eric Wu, and Melanie Arnold/Keith Arnold.- report by Karoline Li; photo by Phil Straus. Click here to see a selection of Sarah Small’s Pair Go images on Facebook.